A new version of the popular open-source blogging software WordPress has been posted, the cadre of volunteers behind the software announced on Thursday.

Version 3.0, is the 13th major release of the software, and contains over 2,700 changes -- including 1,217 bug fixes -- that were provided by 218 volunteers.

With this release, "WordPress is now becoming one of the most capable blogging platforms out there," said Adriaan Bloem, an analyst for the Real Story Group, a research and consulting firm specializing in content management software.

Feature-wise, perhaps the most-discussed addition is the new ability of the software to run multiple blogs. Previously, each blog on a site had to be run on a separate copy of WordPress. Administrators could run multiple blogs from the same instance only by using another version of WordPress customized for this task, called WordPress MU.

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